Stavros Michalakakos (in
Greek
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Σταύρος Μιχαλακάκος) (born 9 April 1987) is a
Greek Cypriot
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singer. On 12 February 2010 he won the
second season of the
Greek version of the television singing competition ''
The X Factor
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''. He was awarded a recording contract and a car. Michalakakos is the second Cypriot to have won the Greek competition, after
Loukas Giorkas
Loukas Yorkas () born in Aradippou, Cyprus, on 18 October 1986, is a Greek Cypriots, Cypriot singer and the winner of the first season of the Greek version of the television talent series ''The X Factor (Greece), The X Factor''. In September 2009 ...
won the
first season.
Michalakakos' debut single, "Vres To Nisi" (Find the Island), a Greek-language cover of the 1979
Nick Lowe
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" with lyrics by Nikos Moraitis, was digitally released on 11 June 2010.
References
External links
Stavros Michalakakos MySpace site
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1987 births
The X Factor winners
Living people